Thanks to spotty service by the USPS, I have started to migrate our snail mail services to digital-only. I’m doing so belatedly, perhaps, but certainly with a little bit of anger and a lot of sadness. We don’t like in some far-flung rural area; rather, we’re smack dab in the middle of downtown Chicago, so […]
Mozilla has announced that it’s forming a “rebel alliance” of AI startups to combat Anthropic, OpenAI, and the other backers of deathstar AI. It’s a cool idea that’s misguided and will ultimately fail. What’s cool about it is that Mozilla is standing up for, well, everyone who doesn’t stand to make a killing automating everyone […]
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just screams for counter-programming. The get-together, colloquially called “Davos” because it happens in a quaint little town in Switzerland, is billed as a place where “the foremost leaders from government, business, and civil society” can “confront shared challenges and drive innovations driving the future.” Considering all of […]
I just finished a demo trying to capture Alice’s interaction with the Caterpillar (without resorting to drug theme, which kinda misses the point anyway):
What better way to spend the early morning hours of the first day of 2026 finishing a song demo! Here’s Bill:
OpenAI is recruiting for a “Head of Preparedness.” I applied earlier today. The company describes the role as being “directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.” Of course, that’s mostly nonsense, or at best happy but unenforceable ethics, since […]
I just finished the third song — A Sad Tail — which recounts Alice interpreting the Mouse’s story as gibberish and then looking at his tail and wondering how it could be sad:
Here’s song #2 for Wonderland Revisited: It’s called Poor Alice:
A new research report from physicists at the University of British Columbia claims there’s mathematical proof that there’s some “understanding” in the cosmos that exists beyond any capacity for us to describe or explain it. They did their study to challenge the premise that our universe is a computer simulation (and, by association, that we […]
I just finished the first demo for Wonderland Revisited; it’s called Down, Down, Down: